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cal form of Silu. 4.6, an occasional poem that describes a statuette of Hercules carved by Lysippus, by looking at how the poem positions itself generically. Alex Hardie has stated that clearest example of expansion of an ekphrastic epigram is Silu. 4.6 (Hardie 1983: 130). Hardie has here observed that descriptive epigrams in the Greek Anthology and Statius' descriptive Siluae have much in common, and that this similarity can be in part explained according to the oratorical genres found in ancient handbooks on rhetoric.2 Using such external criteria as a taxonomy of genres can provide a useful theoretical framework in which we can understand Statius'